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Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by crossroadsguy » Wed, Apr 09, 2025, 2:22 PM UTC

freewizard wrote: post #20

I use Badgeify, nice feature set, and I appreciate this works with Ice[1], there's an OSS alternative[2] but not work well with Ice somehow. [1] https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice [2] https://github.com/xiaogdgenuine/Doll

Ice never worked for me. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden is the only thing I could make on my Mac work for some reason. I think https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer didn't work either for me (well, it used to then it stopped after a Mac update or so).

Anyway, after 15.4 update yesterday a lot of things are misbehaving for me including miraculous battery drains.

Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by ronnieboy493 » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 3:44 AM UTC

andrei_says_ wrote: post #57

dtgriscom wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From ten months ago: https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Lets-Try-This-Again/

A bit hard to believe especially given the amount of time between the community raising the alarm and any coherent response from the new owners. Still no individual’s names or contact info on the website. I am a paying user who uninstalled the app from all my Macs and replaced with ice. Ice lacks my favorite bartender feature (show the extended app bar when mouse hovering over the camera island) but I still prefer it…

The same company Applause recently bought out Strongbox [0], which has been discussed a few times on HN a few times[1]. They have a pretty reliable history of destroy applications / extracting maximum value.

[0] https://strongboxsafe.com

[1] https://kagi.com/search?q=strongbox+site%3Anews.ycombinator....

Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by touristtam » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 7:23 PM UTC

crossroadsguy wrote: post #61

freewizard wrote: post #20

I use Badgeify, nice feature set, and I appreciate this works with Ice[1], there's an OSS alternative[2] but not work well with Ice somehow. [1] https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice [2] https://github.com/xiaogdgenuine/Doll

Ice never worked for me. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden is the only thing I could make on my Mac work for some reason. I think https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer didn't work either for me (well, it used to then it stopped after a Mac update or so). Anyway, after 15.4 update yesterday a lot of things are misbehaving for me including miraculous battery drains.

I have just started to use hidden, and although it isn't pretty by any means, it works fine (MBP M3 Pro 15.4)

Re: Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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Post by lobsterthief » Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 5:53 PM UTC

hbn wrote: post #36

lobsterthief wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s a great app called Bartender that does this. I’ve been using it for over 10 years. Very stable.

You should know at some point in the past year or so it was silently sold to a shady company which makes me VERY wary for something I gave screen recording permissions to. I'd never install Bartender on my machine again.

Thanks for the tip! I’ll check into this for sure